It would be asinine for Oracle to even donate VirutalBox since
virutalization is potentially a huge market. If they did indeed give
away VBox it would be quite a shock to me that Orcale can do such a
move.

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:54 PM, carlopmart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 10:51 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I realize that this is really off topic, but I have seen posting on
>> Virtual Box on the list, so I think some may find the following
>> interesting. (I risk being a troll here but ...)
>>
>> I got an eMail on my tdf-announce (The Document Foundation,
>> A.K.A. Libre Office) that Oracle has just donated Virtual Box
>> the Apach Foundation. Yipee!!!
>>
>> "Today we welcome Oracle's donation of code that has
>> previously been proprietary to the Apache Software
>> Foundation, it is great to see key user features released
>> in a form that can be included into LibreOffice."
>>
>> Now, maybe we can get some bugs fixed! (I am migrating to
>> KVM shortly, but ...)
>>
>> -T
>
> Sorry: OpenOffice is donated, not VirtualBox ...
>
>
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> CL Martinez
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